1 Peter 2:11-17 - A Call To Good Works

¹¹ Beloved, I exhort you as pilgrims and strangers, to abstain from the carnal desire which wars against the soul; ¹² having your deportment beautiful among the Gentiles: in order that in whatsoever they calumniate you as evil doers, seeing from your beautiful works, they may glorify God in the day of his visitation.

¹³ Submit to every human creature for the sake of the Lord: whether to the king as supereminent, ¹⁴ or to governors, as those having been sent out by him unto the condemnation of evil doers, and the praise of those doing good; ¹⁵ because thus it is the will of God, that doing good you should put to shame the ignorance of the ignorant people: ¹⁶ as free, and not as having the freedom as a cover of evil, but as servants of God. ¹⁷ Honor all people; love the brotherhood with divine love; fear God; honor the king.